My Out-of-Body Experience

On January 12th, 2006 while in Asia, I experienced my first out-of-body experience (or at least that is how I am choosing to call it). Sit down and experience it with me as I share below. ~Alison Written January 13th, 2006, a day after it all happened: I just had the most spectacular experience! Holy…

My Salvation Testimony

Note: I wrote this back in 2006, over 5 years after the events of this story happened. I share the most amazing story of God’s grace and goodness back in the glorious year of 1999. This is a testimony of God’s abundant grace and goodness for me and how He displayed His hungry desire to…

101 Things About Me

The following is a list of 101 things about me. Let’s call it the story of “Alison-in-a-nutshell”. It may get updated from time to time but in general these are timeless facts from my life. My name is Alison. Alison means “truthful one” or “teller of truth” or “of sacred fame”This name suits me. I…

My Mission Story – Chapter 6

Chapter Six (of 6): The final leg… Now I won't go into the rest of the story, since it would take too long to explain it all (you can view my archived mission newsletters from my missions journey) but let's just say that God works in mysterious ways, sometimes so differently than we would expect,…

My Mission Story – Chapter 5

Chapter Five (of 6): God moves in mysterious ways I was only going to be given a rental car for one day, until the car would be ready the next day, but I was set to go the very next morning to a 4 day Hearing God Course in Mississauga and I was needing to…

My Mission Story – Chapter 4

Chapter Four (of 6): Breakthrough in the midst of utter despair Then the divine moments began! At the time, I thought that something or Someone (God?!) was trying to make me miserable, but hindsight reveals many things to us if we would just keep relying on God and seeking Him. You see, after this decision…

My Mission Story – Chapter 3

Chapter Three (of 6): Facing the challenges of change I first decided to go part-time at my well-paying job with Telus Mobility, and although I thought I was going to pursue my business Live Creative, I took the time instead to go through all of my life belongings I'd accumulated and get rid of things…

My Mission Story – Chapter 2

Chapter 2 (of 6): Out of my comfy world, God rocks my world After the completion of this Masters Commission school, I moved back to my childhood hometown of Orillia and God had me stay there for 3 years, earning a living, involving myself in church worship & music ministries, acquiring things like a car,…

My Mission Story – Chapter 1

Chapter One (of 6): The Beginning Stages When I met Jesus in 1999 in Uganda, I also met some YWAMers who were doing their DTS Outreach there, and it sparked a bit of an interest in me to "check out" what's out there in terms of missions and ministry stuff. I thought a bit about…

Shaken and Stirred in Oxford

Hello from snowy, shaky Oxford, South Island of New Zealand! To all of you who may be concerned… we are all fine in our neck o' the woods, here in small town rural Oxford area. I drove down from the North Island a couple days ago, was greeted by a huge snowfall yesterday, and then…